Resources

In her review of UNESCO’s GEMR Gender Report 2019 and INEE’s Mind the Gap report, Nora Fyles comments on the status of the evidence base on girls’ education and the progress the EiE field has made in responding to the ambitions of the 2018 Charlevoix Declaration.

In her review of Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Laila Kadiwal comments on why an EiE audience will be interested in author Shenila Khoja-Moolji’s historical analysis and efforts to dismantle monolithic understandings of Muslim women and girls seeking an education.

In her review of Borderless Higher Education for Refugees, edited by Wenona Giles and Lorrie Miller, Spogmai Akseer affirms the contributing authors’ argument for increasing access to college and university education for refugees. Higher education is a tool for navigating and overcoming the systems of inequality and the social, political, and economic barriers refugees face.

We are pleased to share the recording of the Launch Webinar of the PSS-SEL Toolbox. The Psychosocial Support (PSS) and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Toolbox has a variety of tools to meet the interests and needs of many different stakeholders working on PSS and SEL in Education in Emergencies (EiE).

This report presents key steps that the international community has taken to protect children in situations of armed conflict, with a specific focus on the Security Council-mandated Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) to document grave violations against children and to foster accountability by identifying perpetrators.

This virtual event provided an overview of the context, purpose, key findings, and recommendations from the Mind the Gap 2 report and Closing the Gap 2 policy paper. The event also featured case study presentations on promising practices in gender-responsive education in emergencies

The report share research findings and recommendations drawn from qualitative data gathered in humanitarian con- texts in three countries and continents—Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Lebanon—to understand how children have experienced the impact of COVID-19 school closures on their protection, well-being, and education inequalities. 

A video resource demonstrating activities for children for overcoming stress during the pandemic. These activities come from Save the Children's Healing and Education Through the Arts (HEART) Program.

This study provides a detailed assessment of the state of EiE funding, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It reviews financial data from a range of EiE funding modalities, including humanitarian assistance and development cooperation. In addition to presenting the key funding trends since 2016, it pinpoints the critical factors that influence EiE funding over time.

The INEE Minimum Standards update team is pleased to share this webinar recording during which we presented the findings, recommendations and topics of the recently finished INEE Minimum Standards anti-racism and decolonisation thematic review.

Continuing a worrying decade-long rising trend, the number of people forced to flee due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and events seriously disturbing public order climbed to 89.3 million by the end of 2021. This is more than double the 42.7 million people who remained forcibly displaced at the end of 2012 and represents a sharp 8 per cent increase of almost 7 million people in the span of just 12 months.

This new study proposes a new methodology that leverages the latest, most granular available data on crisis severity, children with functional difficulties, forcibly displaced children, out-of-school rates and data from learning outcomes from databases to estimate of the number of out-of-school children in emergencies and the number of crisis-affected children who may not be learning.

The MHPSS Collaborative and INEE are pleased to shared the recording of a webinar on a recently published realist review on school-based mental health and psychosocial support in humanitarian contexts.

This paper provides experimental evidence on strategies to support learning when schools close. We conduct a large-scale randomized trial testing two low-technology interventions— SMS messages and phone calls—with parents to support their child in Botswana. 

The Response to Stress Questionnaire was developed in an attempt to capture the ways that local refugee students in Niger react to and cope with specific sources of stress, including parental depression, family conflict, and academic stressors.

The Self-Regulation Assessment-Assessor Report (SRA-AR) is a measurement tool used to capture assessors’ perceptions of Nigerian refugee and Nigerien children’s skills at regulating their behavior during an assessment. The developers tested this measurement tool in Niger.

This webinar highlighted the importance of measurement tools to inform programming as well as provide a space for researchers and practitioners to reflect on the measurement tool development process.

The Emergency Developmental Assets Profile (EmDAP) measures the well-being of children and youth in emergency settings such as refugee camps and armed conflict zones, assessing whether young people are experiencing adequate positive relationships and opportunities, and developing positive values, skills, and self-perceptions, despite being in crisis circumstances.

The Caregiver Reported Early Development Instrument (CREDI) was designed to serve as a population-level measure of early childhood development (ECD) for children from birth to age three. The 117-item Long Form used in India gathers information on the development of five inter-related domains: motor, cognitive, language, social-emotional, and mental health.

INEE is pleased to share the recording of the launch of INEE's Guidance Note: Teacher Wellbeing in Emergency Settings.

A comprehensive training package on the protection of people with diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) for UNHCR and IOM personnel as well as the broader humanitarian community. 

In using a novel approach to rapidly crowdsource a wide range of published and unpublished evidence related to accelerated education programmes (AEPs), and then synthesising this evidence, our aim is to build on existing critical AEP evidence by offering practical, contextually relevant points of guidance for those shaping policies and guidelines for AEPs.

Our data show that Rohingya children demonstrate a tremendous amount of spontaneous and creative activity in their everyday lives, despite the many challenges in the Cox’s Bazar camps. This brief provides fresh perspectives into the remarkable resilience and creativity these young children possess.

In 2020 and 2021, NYU-TIES set out to better understand how parents perceive play in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. This brief highlights some of the most critical findings supported by multiple data sets, focusing in particular on the role of fathers in supporting playful learning and concluding with reflections on how these findings might be valuable for future program implementation and research.

This brief was developed to support the dissemination of key messages in Mind the Gap 2: Seeking Safe and Sustainable Solutions for Girls’ Education in Crises. It provides an overview of evidence and gaps in girls’ and women’s access to distance education and recommends actions for gender-responsive planning and design of distance education policies and interventions.

This brief was developed to support dissemination of key messages in Mind the Gap 2: Seeking Safe and Sustainable Solutions for Girls’ Education in Crises. It provides an overview of evidence and gaps on the relationship between girls’ education and climate crises, and recommends actions to mitigate the impacts of climate change on girls’ education and promote resilience.

This brief was developed to support dissemination of key messages in Mind the Gap 2: Seeking Safe and Sustainable Solutions for Girls’ Education in Crises. It provides an overview of evidence and gaps related to school-related gender-based-violence and recommends actions and measures to protect women’s and girls’ rights within education.

Education came under violent attack frequently over the last two years, even as the Covid-19 pandemic closed schools and universities around the world. Attacks on education and military use increased globally during this period, as compared to the previous two years. In 2020 and 2021, GCPEA identified over 5,000 reported attacks on education and cases of military use of schools and universities.

The Psychosocial Support (PSS) and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Toolbox has a variety of tools to meet the interests and needs of many different stakeholders working on PSS and SEL in Education in Emergencies.

This course is designed to help you understand the content and structure of the INEE Guidance Note on Gender: Gender Equality in and through Education. By the end of this course, you will be able to use the Guidance Note to: address common misconceptions about gender-responsive EiE, analyze EiE interventions in your context with a gender lens, and develop short advocacy messages about gender-responsive EiE.

This brief synthesizes virtual interviews conducted with accelerated education teachers in Palabek refugee settlement, Uganda, and Juba, South Sudan as well as implementing partners during the disruptions caused by the health pandemic. The brief captures teachers’ and practitioners’ perceptions of the pandemic’s influence on learners and how the COVID-19 health pandemic influenced AE teachers’ professional and personal lives and experiences (e.g. roles, responsibilities, relationships, etc.).

This brief highlights key gaps in the evidence base on gender and EiE and provides strategic guidance and thematic content for new research initiatives focused on gender and EiE. 

This brief is prepared to provide recommendations on promising and practical approaches to support education during the acute crisis period in Ukraine and to mitigate the impacts of the Russian invasion on children’s learning and wellbeing.

This report summarizes progress, gaps, challenges and opportunities in improving education and training for girls and women affected by conflict and crisis. This report monitors progress since the first Mind the Gap report and highlights the following thematic areas: distance education and the digital divide, school-related gender-based violence, and girls’ education during climate crisis. 

This INEE Minimum Standards-aligned Guidance Note is an opportunity to put teacher wellbeing at the center of our response and recovery efforts in conflict and crisis affected settings. Not just because an investment in teachers is an investment in children and adolescents, but because at this moment in history teachers deserve our unparalleled attention as an end unto itself. 

The “Back to School Index” is a project to use public data to build an interactive platform that provides support and guidance for the management of the opening and closing of 140,000 public and private schools in the Mexico.

District Health Information Software (DHIS2) is an open-source web-based platform that has been used to capture, validate, and analyze health data for the last two decades in middle- and low-income countries. Since 2019, Uganda has piloted and implemented DHIS2 for DEMIS (Decentralized Education Management Information System) at district level.

In March 2020 BRAC explored alternative approaches and designed a telecommunication model, Pashe Achhi, to support all the direct beneficiaries during the pandemic. The objective of the intervention was to be connected with the beneficiaries and promote children’s wellbeing and development through play-based learning, positive parenting, and self-care practices of caregivers.

This Guide aims to strengthen the capacity of youth leaders in Africa to contribute to peace building through education, and for them to empower young people for the prevention of violence, the promotion of a culture of peace and mutual understanding and respect among peoples.

The Assessment developed and implemented by Abs Organization for Women & Child (ADO) intends to identify the most important education needs at the level of infrastructure, education provision capacity, and learner well-being in the governorate of Hajjah – more specifically the districts of Mustaba and Abs.

From October 2018 to June 2021, the REALISE initiative launch a research project with the aim to identify and monitor girls at risk of dropping out of school as well as to put in place community-based mechanisms to retain a maximum number of girls in school. This study focused on girls in 22 primary schools, secondary schools and learners in remedial education centers in DR Congo.

The UNRWA EiE Indicator Bank was developed in complement to the UNRWA Common Monitoring Framework (CMF), which includes mandatory indicators for measuring the performance of the UNRWA Education programme. The main objective of establishing the EiE Indicator Bank was to strengthen and harmonize the monitoring and evaluation of EiE activities implemented across the UNRWA Fields of Operation

This INEE infographic visualizes key statistics from Mind the Gap 2: Seeking Safe and Sustainable Solutions for Girls’ Education in Crises, a report which monitors progress in women's and girls' education in crisis and conflict and highlights the following thematic areas: distance education and the digital divide, school-related gender-based violence, and girls’ education during climate crisis. 

ORAM protects and empowers LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers and refugees on every step of their journey, working along displacement routes and in transit countries. They connect individuals with the resources and opportunities they need to build safe, stable and empowered lives. 

Rainbow Railroad is a global not-for-profit organization that helps LGTBQI+ people facing persecution based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and sex characteristics.

This policy paper summarizes the findings of the monitoring report: Mind the Gap 2: Seeking Safe and Sustainable Solutions for Girls’ Education in Crises. 

INEE is pleased to share the recording of this web event during which Dr. Siran Mukerji and Dr. Anjana Virbhan, both INEE community members working at Indira Gandhi National Open University, India, sharedtheir experiences of how Indian higher education institutions responded to the education emergency caused by COVID-19.

The Teacher Professional Development (TPD) package has been developed to provide support for teachers recruited to teach in refugee settlements and other emergency related education situations in Uganda.

This course is designed to provide UNICEF staff with foundational knowledge and skills relating to education in emergencies.  The course was originally designed by ESARO, the content has been utilized and updated from existing content from EiE capacity development training (such as for Frontline Responders, INEE Minimum Standards, Risk-Informed Programming, and others) in a comprehensive manner.

The framework provides a blueprint to ensure that the ECW Secretariat realizes disability inclusion, both internally and through its investments and partnerships. Additionally it seeks to guide the systematization of ECW’s work on Disability Inclusion to ensure that the Fund can reach 10% of children with disabilities across its investment portfolio.